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The Beginning ol Evil.
It was such a little thing—
One slight twist of crimson string,
But it was stealing atl the same;
And the child who took it knew
That she told what was not true,
Just to screen herself from blame ;
First a theft and then a lie—
Both recorded up on high.
It was but a little sip,
Just a taste upon the lip;
But it left a longing there ;
Then the measure larger grew,
And the habit strengthened too,
Till it would no curbing bear;
So the demon Drink decoys;
Soul and body both destroys.
It was but one little word,
Softly spoken, scarcely heard,
Uttered by a single breath;
But.it dared to take in vain
God’s most high and holy name;
So provoking wrath and death.
Soon his lips, once fresh and fair,
Opened but to curse and swear.
It was but one little blow,
Passion’s sudden overflow,
Scarcely heeded in its fall;
But, once loosed, the fiery soul
Would no longer brook control;
Laws it spurned, defied them all,
Till the hands, love clasped in vain,
Wore the murderer’s crimson stain.
Ah! it is'the foxes small
Slyly climbing o’er the wall,
That destroy the tender vines ;
And it is the spark of fire,
Brightening, growing, curling higher,
That across the forest shines.
Just so, step by step, does sin,
If unchecked, a triumph win.
Love One Another.
Children, do you love each other ?
Are you always kind and true?
Do you always do to others
As you’d have them do to you ?
Are you gentle to each other?
Are you careful, day by day,
Not to give offence by actions
Or by anything you say?
Little children, love each other;
Never give another pain;
If your brother speak in anger,
Answer not in wrath again.
Be not selfish to each other ;
Never spoil another’s rest ;
Strive to make each other happy,
And you will yourselves be blest.
Little Bertus.
Many of you, dear children, who read this
story are members of the Sabbath school,
and try to be little soldiers in its army ; but
think you are so small you can do no good,
and sometimes think it’s no use to try any
more. Let me tell you ot a little boy,
younger than many of you, whom I knew;
and you may see how much even the small
est child may do if he tries.
Little Bertus was only six years old; he
lived in Florida, where the country was so
thinly settled that they didn’t have any Sun
day schools, and I don’t know if he ever
heard a sermon in his life, so seldom did
they have preaching; and he had not been
taught as you have about the Bible. His
parents were anxious for him to learn, so, as
soon as he was old enough, he came to school
to me. I said we had no Sunday school;
but 1 had a little class at my boarding house,
and used to teach them from the Bible every
Sunday night, and when Bertus and the other
children came to school during the week,
they would tell them what they had heard;
and at recess they would gather round for
me to tell them too, and to hear me read the
children’s column of the Index ; for they all
loved to hear of God’s goodness to them.
Bertus used to ask me too, and to listen at
tentively to what I said; but he was so young
I did not think he remembered so much as
the others. After a while I missed him from
school; they said he was sick, so I went to
see him.
You know in Florida much of the land is
low and swampy, and grown up with pal
metto, and in the fall almost everybody has
chills and fever. Bertus’ father lived in one
of these low places, and when I went to see
him nearly half of the road was under water.
When I reached the house he was better, and
I hoped he would soon be at school again.
Another of my scholars was very sick; we
thought he would die. I would teach during
the day, and stay with him at night. While
I was there, I heard that Bertus was sick
again. I wanted to go to see him ; but the
other little boy was so sick I could not go to
see him, and the next time I heard from Ber
tus he was dead. ’Twas Friday night his
uncle came and told us, and said : “We will
bury him to-morrow; we don’t want to do it
on Sunday, for he was always telling us,
‘Don’t do that; my teacher says you must’nt
do any work on Sunday, you can help.’ ”
Saturday morning I went to take a last
look at him. The house was a rough log
one, the floor of puncheons, and everything,
though clean, bore evidence that wealth was
unknown there. Bertus’ cold form lay on a
littleoouch in the middle of the room; his
grave-clothes were faded homespun, and a
coarse sheet and worn, „ faded quilt, were
spread over him—the best his parents had
for their only boy; but 1 knew thatjGod had
called the spirit I had loved in that placid
form, to dwell in the glorious courts of heav
en; and, even in death, a smile of peace
rested on the lips that spoke for God.
His father and mother stood, weeping, near
him, and with tearful eyes his father said,
“That child’s talk has made me a Christian.
He was always talking about what his teacher
told him of the Bible. 1 had hardly thought
of religion before his words made me think
of it, and by God’s help, 1 intend to try to
live a Christian and meet my angel boy in
heaven.”
Who of my little readers will imitate the
example of little Bertus ? You, too, if you
love and try to serve God, may help make
your parents Christians, and oh! how glad
you would be to hear them say, “ that child’s
talk has . elped make pie a Christian.” Who
will try ? Augusta.
A Fable.
“Brother,” said a poor man to his rich
neighbor, “ I fear you love money too well.
It is a perishable, ensnaring treasure, bring
ing many crushing cares. I deem it, there
fore, my duty to exhort you to get rid of it
as fast as you can !”
“ O,” sighed the millionaire, “ that I had
some friend who would bear this great weight
forme. Could you do it?”
“I think I might,” replied the other
eagerly.
“ Would you have the kindness to accept a
quarter of all I’m worth ?”
« Yes ”
“A half?”
“I would, indeed !”
“ But, alas, to retain a half of my immense
fortune —what an incubus to body and soul!
Could I persuade you to take the whole?”
“ When shall it be?” cried the reprover.
THE OHRISTIAfi INDEX AND SODTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1869.
“ When money is not an ensnaring, perish- I
able treasure, bringing many crushing cares,”
was the answer. “Till then, if you are wil
ling to endure the load—whose baca has
never borne a tithe of the burden—l surely
ought to be who have been accustomed to it;
and to whom it belongs. And to love my
own cannot, certainly, be worse than the sin
of covetousness which you so plainly exhibit.
You see the mote in my eye, but, 10, there is
a beam in thine own! Henceforth, if you
would successfully admonish others, learn first
to know thyself!”
The Island of the Sirens.
The Sirens, as the old story ran, were sea
nymphs of great power in music, who lived
on an island in the Mediterranean. W T hen
voyagers sailed that way, an t heard the Si
rens, they would listen, and being enchanted
with the singing, they would be attracted to
the island, where, caught in the pleasing trap,
they would have to die for it.
When Ulysses sailed that way, knowing
the power of their songs over the wills of
mortals, he ordered his men to bind him to
the mast, and then to stop their ears with wax,
that they might not hear tiie bewitching
sounds. They could now row past, heedless
of the signs he might make to them. When
they came near the island of the Sirens,
Ulysses heard them, and was greatly pleased.
Becoming yet more clear and loud, their mu
sic entranced him; and now, almost beside
himself, he struggled to be free. He longed
to stay, and hear and hear again ; he shouted ;
he motioned; but his sailors were deaf alike
to the song of delights and the pleadings of
their master. On they sped till the wondrots
singing dies away in the distance, and then
ceases. And now Ulysses is thankful again.
But what do yoi think the Ajgonauts did
when they sailed that way, for they too were
in danger? Well, I will tell you. Before
they set out on their voyage, they took care to
have with them a mighty man'of song, whose
name was Orpheus, and whose notes, though
very captivating, were not dangerous. The
old poets tell us that Orpheus, with his lyre,
moved rocks from their beds, and trees from
their roots, and set them running after him.
Now, when the Argonauts, in their famous
ship, came within hailing distance of the isle
of the Sirens, they told Orpheus to play. At
the same moment was heard the ravishfrig mu
sic of the women on shore; but the Argonauts
were wiser than Ulysses, for they had con
trived to overcome the temptation with some
thing better. They loved the music of Or
pheus, by which they were held captive with
out losing their senses in tipsy joy. And
so they were saved, for the favoring breezes,
and the oars of the strong men soon brought
them into less dangerous seas.
And what does the story teach ?
First of all, that the witchery of pleasure,
deceiving and then killing, must be shunned
at all hazards. To you who are young, the
call of forbidden pleasure is sweet; but
away! away ! There is more in life than its
pleasures; there is more in death than pleas
ure’s loss.
On the Ground.
One bright day last June, Martin and his
three sisters went out in the fields to pick
wild flowers. But, before they went, grand
ma Smith said to them, “ Now, children, be
sure not to sit down on the ground.”
The children laughed, but did not pay much
heed to grandma’s warning. Soon they came
to a spot on the edge of the grove, where
they found the blue chickory flower growing.
This flower is like the daisy, in shape.
“ Let us make a daisy chain,” said Mary, the
eldest of the children. So they plucked a
good many flowers, and then made a loop in
each stem, and so strung the flowers together.
“I think you’d better not sit on the grass,
children,” said Mary. “ You know that
grandma warned us against it.”
“ Pooh ! Grandma is too careful by -half,”
said Martin. “It has not rained for a week.
The grass is quite dry.”
. “ For all that, there may be dampness from
the earth,” said Mary.
“ Oh! we’ll risk it,” said the children.
“Don’t be fussy now, Mary.”
So they sat for a long time, stringing flow
ers and telling stoi’ies; and at last, as the
sun was low in the west, they all went home.
Tho next day, the two little girls who had
sat on the ground were ill with bad colds, and
Martin had pains in his limbs.
“I hope you will admit, after this, my
children,” said grandma, “ that an old wo
man’s advice may be worth heeding. 1 have
known persons to take colds which they never
could cure, from merely sitting on the damp
grass, and maids who take children- out to
walk should not let them sit on the grass.”—
The Nursery.
The True Sisters.
There was a wealthy lady who had adopted
as her own child an orphan girl, who was ex
tremely pious, obedient, industrious, and al (
ways pleasant and cheerful. One day the lady’
said her, “ Theresa, as you are always so
good, I intend you to have anew dress for
our next Christmas festival. 1 have already
spoken to the shop-woman. There is the
money ; so go and get for yourself the beau
tiful stuff of sky-blue color, which pleased
you so mqch.”
The lady gave her two crowns. Theresa
looked at the money, and th< it said, “Oh,
dearest mother ! I have already got clothes
enough; but my sister, Francesca, has not
got such a good place as 1. She is very
poorly clothed; and it will be a mortification
to her if she sees me dressed in the beautiful
new gown. Might I not give her these two
crowns ? She has always loved me so ; and
when I lay ill, she came here so readily, and
was the very kindest nurse to me.”
“Thou good child !” saitj the lady, “ write
to thy sister; she shall come to us: I will
then have you dressed alike. And since you
have the like affection towards one another,
so you shall also have the like dress.”
And of what does the music of Orpheus
remind us? Os the charm of religion, which
alone can break the evil spell of appetite and
vain-glory. You ask how it will do this.
By bringing before the mind something yet
more pleasing. It will not do to say, like
Ulysses, “I will listen to the Sirens just this
once, I would like to kin-w what they can do,
and I will fortify myself against their arts,
and so sail past them.” Ah, we are not like
Ulysses; you may never get past them.
Then fight music with music; oppose to a
love of sin a stronger love; to thoughts of
forbidden pleasure, thoughts of the pleasure
of aa approving conscience, and of the higher
bliss of heaven. If death be serenading you,
listen to the serenade of life, and leaning to
wards the divine song, let its sweetness sus
tain you till you are far on in the way of
safety.
‘•Of sister love, so pure and fond,
By God is knit the golden bond:
Dear children, love thus sisterly,
Like God’s blest angels in the sky.”
My Unknown Wife.
Whoever she may be,
Lay Thou Thy hands upon her, keep her pure,
Ere sorrow come, draw near to her, that she
May learn how to endure.
Wander where’er Thou wilt,
Among the pleasant places of her sonl,
And let a temple there to Tbee be built,
Where love shall have control.
And when at night she prays,
Put it into her heart to pray for me,
The answer to those prayers, in after days,
It will be good to see.
Let me to her be brought
In my green youth, ere many yea,rs roll round;
As long as I have life she shall be sought,
Aud prayed for until found.
3>he jiuuto jlttol.
Sunday School Celebration.
Please give room in your.worthy paper foe
a short sketch of a Sabbath School Celebra
tion, which took place at Eliam church, Put
nam county, East Florida, on the 23rd July.
At an early hour in the morning the children,
numbering about one hundred, were formed
into a procession al the arbor, by the super
intendent, Rev. J. H. Tomkies, and inarched
to the church, with a beautiful banner at the
head of the column. The children being
seated, sang “Happy Greeting;” a suitable pas
sage of Scripture was read and prayer offered
by the superintendent. A few' peices were sung
by the school : afterwards each repeated a
passage of Scripture as they were called on.
The superintendent then introduced the
speakers ; and after each speech an appropri
ate piece was sung. First speaker, Master John
Goodson : Second, Thomas Mcßae; subject,
Sunday School: Dialogue; Fanuie Cade, and
Mary Williams, subject, What shall be done
with the Little Ones : Speech, Zannie Mcßae,
subject, “Bad Habits:” Dialogue, Mary
McLeod and Olivia Cade, subject, What we
learn at Sabbath School : Speech, Calhoun
Powell, subject, “The Bible:” Dialogue,
Miss Dora Law, Alice Mcßae and Virginia
Cade, subject, “ The Golden Apple :” Speech,
John Mcßae, subject, “Three M’s,” Mind,
Manners aud Moral's: Dialogue by Messrs.
W. R. White, W. T. Craig, and Thomas
Carroll, subject, Paul before Agrippa; and
many other speeches and dialogues by the
smaller children.
Rev. Mr. Eady, the speaker of the day, was
then introduced, who made a very appropri
ate and interesting speech, and complimented
very highly the superintendent, Rev. J. H.
Tomkies, for the efficient management of the
school. The children were then marched
to the table under the arbor, and arranged in
two ranks, where they received all the atten
tion necessary from the committee and at
tendants. They then broke ranks, and all the
ladies and gentlemen present were invited to
the sumptous repast, which had been prepared
by the good citizens of the neighborhood.
After a short recess, all were assembled
again in the church, and after a few rounds
of sweet and delightful singing, a speech from
the superintendent was loudly called for by
the audience, who finally responded on the
importance of Sabbath Schools, which inter
ested both young and old. The attendance
was very large, and all the exercises very in
teresting. The parting hymn was sung and
the benediction closed one of the most inter
esting celebrations ever witnessed in these
parts. A Spectator.
Waldo, Florida, August 8, 1869.
Duty from Different Standpoints.
It is not, I say it boldly, everybody’s duty
to become a Sunday school teacher. If, for
example, school is opened at nine, and you
cannot get there till a quarter of ten, it is your
duty to stay away. 1 know a bright-eyed,
merry class of boys, who invariably wait just
that length of time for their teacher who
comes leisurely along,, forty-five minutes too
late, swings himself iifco, a seat, and says,
“ Good morning boys,” With the most noncha
lant air in the world. If you are too lazy,
or too delicate, or too much occupied, or too
anything, to be in time don’t have any scru
ples about giving your class up altogether.
“ I’ve been thirty years a teacher,” said a
gentleman to me, “and the sum of my expe
rience is this : * Foolishness is bound up in
the heart of a child.’ ” If you stand on that
platform, my friend, pray stay away from
Sunday school. Foolishness is bound up in
the hearts of children, and in the hearts of a
great grown up people. A thoroughly
wise chjTdfwouid be a very uninteresting spec
tacle. A great many other things are to be
found in children’s hearts, too, love and ten
derness and unselfishness, and the most wonder
ful faculty of forgiving faults that their elders
often show to them. When I read Solomon’s
opinions of children, I like to read them in
connection with those of One greater than
Solomon, who said to His disciples, “ Except
ye be converted, and becomes as little chil
dren, ye shall not enter ip to the kingdom of
heaven.”
If you cannot take advice, or if you know
so much that you are sure you never can learn
any more, (there are such people,) you have
no call to enter the Sunday school. The best
teachers are always learners. It was said of
the Bourbons that they never “ learned any
thing and never forgot anything,” and for that
simple reason the heir of the Bourbons is to
day a private gentleman, while Louis Napo
leon sits on the throne of France. People
of the Bourbon stamp are not very useful in
the Sunday school.
If you feel in your heart that after all you
are serving Jesus in the best way you possibly
cm, and to the full measure of your ability,
by teaching in the Sunday school, don’k let
my words keep you away, if you are ever so
late, ever so cynical, or ever so self-satisfied.
Ar-Mrs. M. E. Songster.
.* feor Children.
4Ve should not forget that the Sunday school
was originally designed for poor children. Is
it not too often the case now that they • are
neglected ? Whatever barriers of dress,
fashion or social condition, exclude the poor
are very hurtful to our work. Superinten
dents and teachers should war against this
spirit. The children should'be taught to go
out after the neglected, provide for their wants
and bring them into their classes. A poor
boy recently told the writer he had left his
school because ashamed to wear 'patched
clothes. Any judicious superintendent can,
with a kind word, break down this feeling.
Look after the poor, the very poor. Make
your school a home for the neglected and
him that “hath no helper,” and it will be the
safeguard of your neighborhood and the pro
moter of piety. Let the arms of the Sunday
school be the arms of love, enfolding in a
warm and confiding embrace every sinful,
straying heart. Do this for Jesus’ sake.—
C. H. Ryland, in Rel. Her.
The Library. —The Central Illinois Sun
day School Convention adapted the following
resolution : That we express our united dis
approval of fictitious reading of immoral
tendency in our Sunday school libraries, and
that we will use our earnest arid constant
influence to secure a reform in the character
of our current Sabbath school literature, sub
stituting in the Sunday schoo? libraries of the
church fact for fiction, and truth for falsehood;
and that we earnestly request the cooperation
of the whole church to secure this much
desired object.
Time Gained.— A writer in the S. S.
Journal indicates how “ busy people,” those
who cannot attend Sunday school for want of
time, may find time. Let them study into
the matter and be assured that it will pay ;
then let them somewhere along the thread of
their daily duties tie a knot and label it
“Sunday school work.” Let them realize she
worth of the love and esteem of a child. Let
them lop off a great deal of selfishness and
ingraft Christian love.
,f am, & .fimiMe.
BY THE PROPRIETOR.
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The Fanners* Bank—Money Free to All!
(For Us.)
Batiks may, perhaps, be necessary institu
tions, but I never heard of much good they
ever done: yet 1, do not know; however, I
can say that there is one bank that does ac
complish much good, and it is one that is
highly necessary to the peace and prosperity
of the whole country. We call it the “Farm
er’s Bank,” as it is the one, and only one, to
which the working man can go and borrow
without interest, bond, or security. Did you
know that there was such a bank, O ye sun
burnt, toil-worn laborers? Most of you, I
must say, act as if you do not, and I must
suppose that you do not, for surely men pos
sessing the good common-sense that the la
boring fraternity have been accredited with,
would not knowingly act unwisely. Yes,
there is a bank, thanks to a kind Providence,
from which you may go and draw the means
of starting yourselves in life. Why, then,
do you struggle on in the hard battle for
bread, upon land so poor as to yield but a
precarious support, when you may freely
possess the means of making that same land
rich as the gardens ot the orient? Is it not
folly, then—yea, soicidal, to “ work your life
away ” upon land, when it is much
easier, and ten titles cheaper, to live, if you
will but go to bank and borrow ? Do
not fear to purse-proud, elbowing,
insolent” clerks are there to meet you with
a frown. Yell, let me entreat you to go;
you are always welcome, and the treasury is
inexhaustible. No one has ever yet seen the
bottom, nor will fur a thousand years. Nor
will you have far to travel to find it. It is
not in the city, locked up in marble vaults,
or guarded by iron bars and argus eyes. It
is not on Wall street. But it is to be found
in the quiet country. It may be by some
“ babbling brook,” in the “ forest gray,” in
some lonely dell, or where the “ wild flowers
lie scattered over the plainor it may be
where some humble swain tends the “ brows
ing herd.” You may easily find it; never
fear; the wonder is that you have not already
done so. Perhaps some of you have seen it;
but surely you never thought what a boon it
held, or else you would have turned aside to
become a partaker of the blessings it bestows.
And here let me entreat you, if you value
your own temporal prosperity, to do so at
once. Go to-morrow morn by “ peep o’
day,” and help yourself to the rich treasures
buried there—gold, and silver, and all man
ner. of precious mones. It is free, and no
sleepy, conceited cockney is there to talk
about “ business hours.” You may gather
with all your might from break of day till
set ol sun ; and the officers of the bank, if
you but invite them, will turn your active
and efficient helpers. But, my friends, do
you know what sort of a bank this is? I
will tell you. It is the Manure Bank. Its
officers are Industry, Economy, and Integrity,
and its gifts are health, wealth’and happiness.
Go, then, to this ,lsank, and with honesty of,
purpose, determine to reap the golden rewards
that ever await a vigilant industry when gui
ded by the steady hand of economy. Go,
spread the accumulated riches of the manure
bank over your barren acres. And having
done this, go and extract wealth and happi
ness from the heretofore stubborn soil. It
was so only because you have been a hard
master. Learn to spread the manure with a
liberal hand, and the grateful earth will repay
you a thousand fold. After all, this is the
farmer’s palladium, his surest stock in trade,
the life and soul of all good success in his
noble,, time-honored art. Is it not so, good
friends? B. W. Jones.
Cottage Home , Surry, Va.
'Pictures.— The thoughtful observer has
often, doubtless, been surprised and pained
to notice the liberal patronage bestowed, by
persons of small means,on publications which
contain a number of rudely gotten up engrav
ings. The design of such illustrations is
generally sensational, aneb-the reading matter
which accompanies them demoralizing in every
particular. It is remarkable that Christian
parents, even, will persist in supplying their
children with such ruinous trash. These
thoughts have been suggested by a hasty
glance through some of our exchanges, many
of which contain engravings of an instructive
character. Among those to which the atten
tion would be directly called, the following
may be mentioned : The Scientific Ameri
can, The American Agriculturist, The Hearth
and Home, The Jkiral New Yorker , The Man
ufacturer and Builder, The American Farmer,
The Maryland Farmer , etc. In these weekly
and monthly papers may be seen a great
variety of elegant engravings, with reading
matter well calculated to enlist the attention
and improve the minds of the young as well
as the old. The Index would earnestly ap
peal to parents to give attention to this matter,
and would urge upon them the great impor
tance of providing for their children only
such current literature as they can fully and
heartily endorse. Much of our Sunday
school literature (books,) is sufficiently light
and trashy ; but the publications first referred
ot are seriously damaging in their tendency.
Food for the mind of the young should j>e of
the best quality. Nothing of a doubtful
character should be patronized.
Lay a Fainting Person Down.
Says a physician in Hearth and Home :
It is surprising how eageriy everybody
rushes at a taiting persou, and strives to raise
him up, aud especially to keep the head erect.
There must beau instinctive apprehension
that if a person seized with a fainting or other
fit fall into the recumbent position, death is
more imminent. I must have driven a mile
to-day, while a lady, fainting, was held up
right. 1 found her pulseless, white, and ap
parently dying, and 1 believe if I had delayed
ten minutes longer she would really have
deid. I laid her down on a lower level than
her body, and immediately color returned to
her lips aq,d cheeks, and she became conscious.
To the excited group of friends I said : “Al
ways remember this sact —namely : fainting
is caused by a want of blood in the brain;
the heart ceases to act with sufficient force to
send the usual amount of blood to the brain,
and hence the person loses consciousness be
cause the function of the brain ceases. Restore
the blood to the brain, and instantly the per
son recovers. Now, though the blood is pro
pelled to all parts of the body by the action
of the heart, yet it is still under the influence
of the laws of gravitation. In the erect posi
tion the blood ascends to the head against
gravitation, and the supply to the brain is
diminished, as compared with the recumbent
position, the heart’s pulsation being equal.
If, then, you place a person in a sitting posi
tion ‘whose heart has nearly ceased to beat,
his brain will fail to receive the blood, while
if you lay him down, with the head lower
than the heart, blood will run into the brain
by the mere force of gravity ; and in fainting,
in sufficient quantity to restore consciousness.
Indeed, nature teaches us how to manage
fainting persons, for they always fall, and tre
quently are at once restored by the recumbent
position into which they are thrown.
The longest trail at the Seventh Regiment
ball at Saratoga, was worn by a New York
lady, and measured twelve feet.
The Chinese giant, Chang, eight feet six
inches high, has come over in the steamship
Denmark. Asa Mongolian, he is something
wonderful, but giants of his altitude are not
uncommon among the Caucassians.
At Bridgeport, Conn., the Wheeler & Wil
son Manufacturing Company employ over
$4,000,000 and eight hundred men; their
factories cover six and a half acres of ground,
and they manufacture three hundred sewing
machines a day.
A most ingenious piece of mechanism has
been completed and patented by Mr. B. W.
Ogburn, of Mecklenburg, Va. It is a-scale
which, in weighing 17£ pounds of sugar at
16 cents a pound, points out what the sugar
comes to. So of any article, or any humber
of pounds, or any price.
A Tennessee farmer plowed up a keg con
taining $5,000 in coin the other day* The
following morning he was going out to work
again, when he found his labor useless, as
treasure-seekers had dug the field over thor
oughly during the night.
<|ommmial and JinandaL
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
OFFICE INDEX A BAPTIST,
Atlanta, August 24, 1869.
Bacon has advanced since our last, and the stocks are
now light, with a fair consumptive demand. It is be
lieved that prices will continue to advance until the
season closes. Corn is scarce, with a slight advance—
stocks light.
Wheat—very little coming in. Flour is in good de
mand-prices steady at quotations. No other changes
to note.
Grooeries and Provisions —Wholesale.
BACON—Canvassed Hams ft
Plain Hams Ift 20 @ 21
Clear Sides. 18 lb @ 21%
Clear Rib Sides It> 20*@ 2i
Shoulders 18 ft 17 @ 17J/J
BULK MEATS—CIear sides ' %1 ft ©
Clear Bib 1b @
Shoulders fl lb (3.
Hams 18 lb @
BLACK PEPPER %4 ®> @ 87*
BLUE STONE Vft 14 @ IS
BEANS bushel 1 80 @ 200
BROOMS doz 8 50 @ 600
BUCKETS $ doz 800 @8 BO
CANDY—Assorted 18 ft 25 @ 27
Stick 18 lb 21 @ 22
CANDLES—Paraffine. slb 88 @ 40
Star %t ft 17 @ 11%
Tallow 18 ft 12
CHEESE 18 ft 15 @ 22#
CIGARS m 18 00 @6O 00
Havana 18 rn 80 00 @l6O 00
COFrKE—Java f) lb 40 @ 46
Rio $ ft 28 @ 28
COPPERAS 18 ft 4 © 6
COTTON CARDS $4 doz 8 00 @ 850
COTTON THREAD $ bunch 2 00 @2 10
FEATHERS fl lb 76 @ 80
FLOUR—Family * bbl 8 00 @ 8 50
Fancy V bbl 9 60 @lO 00
Extra V hbl 7 00 @J 50
Superfine 18 bbl 650 @ 7 00
HERRINGS 18 box 90 @
INDIGO, sp 18 ft 1 60 © 175
LARD—In Bbls 18 ft @22
In Kegs and Cans 18 1b @2B
LEAD 18 ft 9 & 11
LEATHER—SoIe 18 ft 80 @ 40
Northern tanned fl 1b 82 @ 40
Upper Ift 50 @ 70
Calf Skins 9 doz 40 00 @7O 00
French 9 doz 70 00 @76 00
LIME 9 bushel 50 @ 60
HYDRAULIC CEMENT 18 bbl 600 @
MACKEREL 9 bbl 17 00 @25 00
Do 18 kit 8 00 @ 860
MADDER 9ft 16@ 17
MOLASSES 1 gallon @ 60
Sorghum % gallon 55 @ 60
NAILS 18 lb 6 25 @ 675
OlL—Kerosene 18 gallon @ 60
Linseed, raw fl gallon 1 45 @l6O
Machine 9 gallon 1 00 @ 1 75
Tanner’s 18 gallon © 75
ONIONS 18 bbl 4 00 @ 600
RICE 9lb 12 @ 18
ROPE—Hemp 9ft 8 @ 11
Cotton 18 lb 85 @ 40
RAISINS 78 box 5 00 @
BALT—Virginia 18 sack 2 80
Liverpool 18 sack @ 275
SHOT fl sack 8 50 @ 875
SOAP—Northern . 18 ft 7)4@ 12%
SODA 18 lb 9 @ 9*
SNUFF 9 lb 85 @ 100
STARCH 9lb 10 @ 11
SUGAR—Brown $4 ft 18 @ 17
Coffee 18 ft 16 @ 18
Crushed 91b 19 @ 20
SARDINES— % box 18 doz 276 @8 00
% box 19 doz 0 00 @
TEAS—Gunpowder 18 ft 0 00 @ 000
Green 9 lb 1 75 @ 400
Black 18 ft 1 50 @ 2 00
TOBACCO—Common 18 ft 45 @ 56
Medium 18 lb 76 @ 1 00
Prime 18 lb 1 25 @ 200
TWlNE—Wrapping 18 ft 80 @ 60
VINEGAR—Cider 18 gallon 80 @ 60
Country Produce.
APPLES—Green $ bbl. $ 600 @ 600
Dried $ ib 7 @ 8
JBOTTEK B> 25 @ 50
BEESWAX $Ri 85 @ 88
COEN * bushel 1 20 @ 125
CHICKENS $} doz 8 00 @ 850
EGGS W doz 12 @ 15
FODDER $ cwt 200 @
HlDES—Green lb (g| 10
Dry lb @2O
HAY $ cwt 200 @ 210
MEAL 1 bushel 1 80 @ 185
OATS bushel @ 75
PEACHES—PeaIed «Ib 15 ® 20
Unpealed %( ft) 8 (a) 10V
PEAS 1 bushel @ 1 25
Table fi bushel @ 1 25
PEANUTS 1 bushel 2 00 @ 225
POTATOES—Sweet * bushel 1 80 @ 150
Yams IB bushel 1 50 @ 175
Irish % bushel 1 25 @ 125
TALLOW slb 10 @ 11
WHEAT—White $ bushel 150 @ 1 60
Red $) bushel 1 80 @ 140
Financial.
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK—Buying at par; selling
14 premium.
GOLD.—Buying at 80, selling at 82.
SlLVEß.—Baying at 20, selling at 25.
GOLD BULLION.—Baying at $1.15@1.20 penny weigh
GOLD DUST.—Buying at SLOO@I.IO pennyweight.
The following are the rates paid by oar brokers during the
week for Georgia and Alabama bank bills:
GEORGIA.
Buying
Georgia R. R. A B. Cos., 68
Marine Bank of Georgia 98
Bank of Fulton 40
Bank of Empire State 20
Augusta Ins. A B. Cos. 0
City Bank of Augusta 60
Manufacturers B’k of Macon 20
North-Western Bank 1
Merchants and Planters 7
Planters Bank. 20
Bank of Columbus 0
Central R. R. Bank 98
Bank of Middle Georgia 98
Bank of Athens 00
Bank of Aagusta
Union Bank of Augusta 6
Augusta Savings Bank 10
Timber Cotters Bank 1
Bank of Savannah 60
Bank of the State 28 ;
Bank of Commerce 5 ]
Mechanics Bank 1
ALABAMA.
Bank of Mobile 95]
Eastern Bank of Alabama 04 1
Bank of Selina 00 1
Commercial Bank 6i j
Bank of Montgomery I
BEtte | ESTABLISHED IN
BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY.
Church, Academy, Factory, Farm, Fire-Alarm Bells,
Ac., made pf PURE BELL METAL, (Copper and
Tin,) warranted in Quality, tiihe, durability, xc., and
mounted with otrr Patent IMPROVED ROTATING
HANGINGS, Illustrated Catalogue sent free
VANDUZEN & TIFT.
102 Sc 104 E. Second 6t.,
2425—75 yr Cincinnati, ,Ohio.
All kinds op law blanks, printed at
short notice and in good style, at the
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE.
Buying
' Central Bank 2
l Northern Bank 80
I Southern Bank 95
1 SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 Union Bank 95
Bank of Chester 15
Bank of the State, old 85
Bank of Charleston 76
Exchange Bank 7
Merchants (Cheraw) 4
Bank of Georgetown 10
Planters Bank 5
Planters and Mechanics 65
Peoples Bank 75
Bank of Newberry 70
Bank of Hamburg 6
South-Western R. R. Bank 70
Farmers and Exchange 1
Bank of Camden 75
Bank of Sooth Carolina 15
State Bank 2
Commercial Bank 1
NORTH CAROLINA.
Bank of Cape Fear 25
Bank of Wilmington 7
Bank of the State 40
All other Norm CUrolinsßankr
65 to 97 per cent, discount.
BOOKS, STATIONERY, ETC.
NEW BOOK,
—BY —
DR. H. H. TUCKER.
“THE GOSPEL IN ENOCH;”
Or,
TRUTH IN THE CONCRETE,
A Doctrinal and Bieg v apbical Sketch. By H. H.
Tucker, D.D. Price #125.
On receipt of the retail orice, a copy will he sent
by mail to any address, post-paid.
Address J. J. & S. P. RICHARDS,
Booksellers and Stationers,
2429—ts Atlanta, Georgia.
J J. & S. P. RICHARDS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Dealers in
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
Will send to any address, by mail, postpaid, a copy
ol Dr. H. H. Tucker’s book,
THE GOSPEL IN ENOCH,
on receipt of the retail price, one dollar and a quar
ter.
N. B.: A large stock of Bibles. Hymn Bools, and
Sunday School Bools, lor sale at Publishers’ prices.
2429-ts
DRUGS, MEDICINES, ETC.
JQR. J. BRADFIELD’S
FEMALE REGULATOR,
WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND.
This valuable Medicine is prepared for Women ex
clusively, and tt> be used by Women only. It is
adapted especially to those cases where the womb is
disordered, and will cure any irregularity in the
menses,” except in such cases as require a surgical
operation. As these last are very rare, the Female
Regulator is of almost universal application. In a
sudden check of the “monthly courses” from cold,
trouble of mind or like cause, it acts like a charm, by
restoring the discharge in every instance, thus reliev
ing the fever, headache, pain in the small of the back
and “ lower stomach,” flushes of heat about the face,
chilly sensations, burning of the eyelids and general
restlessness. Taken in time, all these symptoms
pass away immediately, without injury to the consti
tution. Frequently, however, the proper remedy is
not applied in time, the disease becomes chronic, and
the foundation laid for numberless evils to the consti
tution of the woman. The next “turn” comes
around and there is no “show,” or perhaps the
“whites” will appear. There will be some uneasi
ness about the womb, but very little or none of the
natural fluid escaping. The complexion becomes sal
low, bowels swollen, a sort of greenish caste about
the face, constant dull aching pains in the head,
weight in the lower stomach and back, with or with
out whites, palpitations of the heart, pallor, exhaus
tion, indigestion, weariness, languor, aching across
the loins, loss of appetite, pain in the left breast,
tightness across the chest, cough and giddiness. If
still allowed to go on, “green sickness will be fully
developed—the headache becomes severe, with loss
of memory, diminished sensibility sic/c stomach, dys
pepsia, no relish for food, loss of flesh, increased flut
tering of the heart, swelling of the feet, legs anti body,
and occasional spitting of blood. The slightest eflort
causes hurried breathing, almost to sufiocation. The
skin is flabby and has a “doughy feeling ” This is a
sad picture, but it is the condition of thousands of
women between the ages of 15 and 45, who are
brought to the verge of the grave by ignorance or
neglect to take the proper remedy. To all who are
afflicted with any of the symptoms above-mentioned,
in connection with any irregularity of the “ monthly
sickness,” we earnestly say TAKE DR. J. BRAD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR. A few ounces
taken, you will at once experience its benefits, and
with a little patience you v.-ill be fully restored to
health.
This remedy has been extensivhly used for upwards
of twenty years by many ot the most experiened and
successful Physicians in Georgia.
We repeat, that DR. J. BRADFIELD’S FEMALE
REGULATOR is prepared lor Women, and to be used
by women only.
A trial is all we ask.
Prepared and sold in any quantity, by
L. 11. BRADFIELD,
Wholesale Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price, #1 50 per bottle. Sold by Druggists gener
ally.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29th, 1868.
Dr. J. Bradfield —
Dear Sir: I take pleasure in stating that sometime
previous to the late war, 1 used, with the utmost suc
cess, on a servant girl, your FEMALE REGULATOR,
prepared then at Bradfield’s Drug Store, West Point,
Ga. She had been suflering severely from suppressed
menstruation, and this Medicine soon restored her to
health. She is, to-day, living in Atlanta, sound and
well.
I will state, further, that I know of its being used,
with equal success, on a servant girl of my brother
in-law, Professor Rutherford, of Athens, Ga. This
woman had, I think, been diseased for six years.
She was a house servant, and seemed cured, up to
the time of “freedom.” Ido not hesitate to endorse
your preparation for the purposes for which you re
commend it.
Yours truly, Jno. C. Whitnkr.
STATE OF GEORGIA, Troup County.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe
of Dr. Joseph Bradfield, of this county, and, as a med
ical man, pronounce it to be a combination of Medi
cines of great merit in the treatment of all the diseases
of females for which he recommends it.
Wm. P. Beasi.ky, M.D.
This Dec. 21*1, 1868.
Mountville, 1868.
Dr. J. Bradfield —
Dear Sir: I have much pleasure in saying I have
witnessed the most decided and happy effects of your
Female Regulator in this neighborhood.
Wm. H. Finchen.
Mountville, 1868.
Dr. J. Bradfield —
Dear Sir: I have repeatedly used in my family
your FEMALE REGULATOR, and have, in every
case, met with complete success. G. L. Davis.
Mountville, 1868.
Dr. J. Bradfield —
Dear Sir: Having, for many years, been acquainted
with your FEMALE REGULATOR, and used it in
my family, I take great pleasure instating to those
thus afflicted that I have never known it to tail.
J. N. Carlton.
I also prepare, and have for sale, a YEAST
POWDER, equal to the best, and for much less price.
I also prepare a LIQUID BLUING, now in
use by many of the best housekeepers in the city, and
pronounced-by them to be very superior.
L. H. BRADFIELD, Druggist,
2427—57—7 m Ailanta Georgia.
A. CONSTANTIN K’S
PERSIAN HEALING OR PINE TAR SOAP.
Each cake is stamped ‘A. A. Constantine’s Persian
Healing or Pine Tar Soap, Patented March 12th
1867”—n0 other is genuine.
For the Toilet, Bath, & Nursery this soap has no
equal. It makes the complexion fair, removes all
Dandruf, keeps the Hair soft and silky, and prevents
it from failing oflj and is “the best Hair Renovator in
use.”
It cures Chapped Hands, Pimples, Salt Rheum,
Frosted feet, Burns, all diseases ol the Scalp and
Skin, Catarrh of the Head, and is a Good Shaving
Soap.
This Soap has already won the praise and esteem
of very many of our first families in this city and
throughout the country. It is used extensively by
our best physicians. Wherever used it has become a
household necessity.
For sale by all Dealers. Agents wanted. Call on
or address
A. A. CONSTANTINE A CO ,
43 Ann St., New York.
2438-2458. I—S.
RUPTURES CUR^D.
PR. J. A. SHERMAN,
Artistic Surgeon, respectfully offers his services in
the application of his Rupture Curative Appliances,
at his office,
No. 697 Broadway, Nkw York.
The great experience of Dr. SHERMAN, resulting
from his long and constant devotion to the treatment
and cure of this disease, assures him of l)is ability to
relieve all, without regard to the age of the patient
or duration of the infirmity, or the difficulties which
they may Save heretofore encountered in seeking
relief. Dr. SHERMAN, as Principal of the Rupture
Curative Institute, New Orleans, for a period of
more than rtlteen years, had under his care ihe worst
cases in the country, all of which were effectually
relieved, and many, to their great joy, restored to a
.sound body.
None of the pains and injuries resulting from th*
use of other Trusses, are found in Dr. Sherman's Ap
pliances ; and, with a full knowledge of the assertion,
he promises greater security and comfort, with a daily
improvement in the disease, than can be obtained of
any other person, or the invention, of any other per
son, in the United States.
Prices to suif*hll classes. It is the only, as well as
the cheapest, remedy ever offered the afflicted. Pho
tographic likenesses of cases before and after treat
ment, furnished on receipt of twn iheee-cent stamps
-2420—70 , W.B.J.
SEWING MACHINES.
gEW ING ]y/[ AC hTnES !
GET THE BEST,
Which is undoubtedly the AMERICAN COMBINA
TION (Buttonhole, Overseamiug and Sewing) MA
CHINE—for which we are now the General Agents for
Northern Georgia, and prepared to sell Local Agenda >
in any city or town within the limits of our territory.
As this most perfect piece of mechanism possesses all
the advantages, without the defects of other Machines,
it is evidently to the interest of all who buy to procure
this splendid Machine in preference to any other.
PRICE, $75.00.
Needles of other Machines, also the best Machine
Thread and Silk, and a superior article of Sewing Mu
chine Oil will be kept for sale.
J. J .AS. P. RICHARDS,
Bank Block, Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.
w Seud for Circular, containing full details uud
testimonials. 2448—18 t.
P LOREN (7e SEWING "MACHINE,
THE BEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE IN
THE WORLD.
MAKES FOUR DISTINCT STITCHES, WITh
REVERSIBLE FEED MOTION.
It will hem, fell, bind, gather, braid, quilt, and gather
and sew on a ruffle at the same time.
Circulars sent to any portion of the Slate on appli
cation to LATHROP & CO.,
General Agents for Georgia and Florida,
2441—6 m Agency Savannah, Ga.
INSURANCE.
/COTTON STATES LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, MACON, GEORGIA.
Authorized Capital $2,000,000
Guaranteed Capital $ 500,000
Deposited with State Comptroller for
Security of Policy Holders $ 100,000
W. B. JOHNSTON, President.
W. S. HOLT, Vice President.
GEO. S. OBEAR, Secretary.
J. W. BURKE, General Agent.
C. F. McCAY, Actuary.
J. MERCER GREEN, M.D., Med. Ex.
This Company issues all the various kinds of poli
cies, and they are alt Non-Forfeitable after two full
payments. They give a loan of 50 per cent, on all
premiums amounting to over FiAy Dollars. It is a
Southern Company and every Southern man is inter
terested in keeping the large accumulations of Lite
Companies at home. In Fire Insurance the premi
ums are mostly returned to meet losses ; but in Life
Insurance they ure accumulated to meet the deaths
at old age, and only returned after many years.
The money retained here will bring better interest,
and thus swell the profits of a mutual company, and
benefit the insured in many other ways.
Every Southern man will bo sure to assent to this,
and favor a Southern Company If it is safe. Weofltr
him precisely the same securities as the Northern
Mutual Companii s, the accumulated premiums of the
insured, paid by the young, to meet the amounts in
sured when they grow old and die, and in addition
thereto, a capital commencing with
$500,000.
Surely this makes it safe, and if so, let every man
insure at home.
THEN PREFER THE COTTON STATES LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY:
1. Because it is a mutual company
2. Because it is a Southern company.
3. Because it has a large guaranteed capital.
4. Because it has liberal policies.
5. Because its policies are all non-forfeiting.
6. Because it does not restrict traveling.
7. Because it has the best plans of insurance.
8. Because it will always have $1(K),000 deposited
with the Comptroller-General for the special security
of policy holders.
Vnr furl her pnrt (collars, address
GEO. S. OBEAR, Secretary, or
JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent.
2441 2465-25 t
DRUGS, MEDICINES, ETC.
DR.
SHIS' LIVES BEGSLATOS
m^ — MEDICINE, for Dyspepsia,
Headache, Jaundice. Costiveness, Camp Dysentery,
Sick Headache, Chronic Diarrhoea, Affections ol the
Bladder and Kidneys, Fever, Nervousness, Chills,
Diseases of the skin, Impurity of the Blood, Melan
choly or depression of Spirits.
Most of the ailments here enumerated have their
origin in a diseased liver, which is the most prevalent
affection in this country, and as in many cases the
patient is not within the reach of a physician, it re
quires that some remedy should be provided that
would not in the least impair the constitution, end yet
be active and safe. That such is the character of the
SIMMONS REGULATOR there can be no doubt,
which the testimony of hundreds will establish.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED*
in the side. Sometimes the
™pain is felt under the shoulder blade ;
is sometimes mistaken for rheuma
tism in the arm. The stomach is af
tected with loss of appetite and sick
nessTbowels in general are costive, sometimes alter
nating with lax ; the head is troubled with pain, ac
companied with a dull, heavy sensation. There is
generally a considerable loss of memory, accompa -
nied with a painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been done. A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant. The patien t
complains of weariness and debility ; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the skin ; his spirits
are low ; and although sasistied that exercise would
be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up
fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every
remedy. Several ol the above symptoms attend (he
disease, but cases have occurred when few ot them
existed, yet examination of the body after death has
shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged.
It should be used by all persons, old and young,
whenever any of the foregoing symptoms appear. It
is a purely vegetable compound, is not injurious to the
most delicate constitutions, and will keep the liver in
healthy action if used properly.
Persons living in unhealthy localities may avoid all
billions attacks by taking a dose occasionally to keep
the liver in healthy action,
For children complaining of colic,
n I 1 Iheadache, or sick stomach, a lea-
KPirii Aintt*p° o " fu ' ° r m ° re *u ve re '‘ e| -
llwcUlUlUllohiidren, as well as adults, eat some-
Jiimes too much supper, or eat some-
not digest well, producing sour
stomach, heart-burn, or restlessness; a good dose
will give relief. This applies to persons of all ages.
Many persons, from eating too much, are restless
at night, or in day time are fidgety, wool-gathering,
can’t understand what they read, can’t keep their
thoughts on any one subject so as to reason well, or
become fretful. One or two tablespoonsful will give
relief.
Jaundice.—Take enough Regulator after eating
each meal to produce one full action from the bowels
every day.
Pregnant ladies will find sure relief from their head
ache, costiveness, swimming in the head, colic, sour
stomach, restlessuess, etc,, etc.
Prepared only by
J. H. ZHILIN & CO.,
Druggists, Macon, Gt.
Price $1: by mail $1.25.
For sale by J. F. Henry, New York ; J. D. Park,
Cincinnati; J. Fleming, New Orleans.
2440-2464-251.
PIANO FORTES.
pIANO FORTES,
From the Celebrated Manufactory of
CHAS. M. STEIFF, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
All made witbrthe brilliant Agraffe treble, over
strings and ivory fronts, and warranted e<|ual to any
now in use. we are agents for the sale ol the above
Pianos, and to our friends, and all wanting a good in
strument, we would say be sure to call and see them
belbre purchasing any other. We have testimonials
from Professors and* Teachers in all parts of the
country as to their general merit and superiority.
Prices ranging from s£6o to SI,OOO.
J. J. & S. P. RICHARDS,
Booksellers and Music Dealers,
Bank Block, Si., Atlanta, Qa.
TESTIMONIAL F&OM GEN. LEE.
Lexington, March 2, 1868.
My Dear Sir: The Piano B which' was sent to me, of
your manufacture, in 1865, still retaias the excellent
lone and melody it possessed ,gt that time, andsion
linues to afford great gratification to ourselves and •
friends. I can, therefore, testify to its good qualities
Yours, respectfully, Robkrt E. Lbk.
To Chas. M. Steiff, Baltimore, Md. 2445—2457-13 t